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Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure
By Lissa Evans
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 6 | n/a | 5.5 | 42078 |
Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery, and danger.
As if being small and having S. Horten as his name isn't bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends.But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart's swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tony's marvelous, long-lost workshop. Along the way, Stuart reluctantly accepts help from the annoying triplets next door… and encounters trouble from another magician who's also desperate to get hold of Tony's treasures.
A quirky, smart, charming page-turner, Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms will enchant young readers--as well as teachers, librarians, and parents.
Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal (2012) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2011)
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
ISBN-13: 9781402798061
ISBN-10: 1402798067
Published on 4/3/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
Book Reviews (3)
Stuart Horten has just moved to the town of Beeton. Beeton is the town where his great-uncle, “Teeny-Tiny” Tony Horten lived and had his workshop for Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms. Adjusting to life, Stuart stumbles across a trail of clues left by his great-uncle that leads him to his workshop. In a mysterious tale of Stuart’s adventures searching for clues, Lissa Evans cooks up a promising debut. My thoughts: Horten’s Miraculous Mechanisms was a very wonderful book. I love mysteries, and books that have characters following clues to find something they desire. Stuart is a really small ten year old who is trying to find something that is related to his family. He is very ambitious looking for the workshop; there are adults who are spying on him, he is getting into trouble but he still does his best to follow through. The dad is a crack-up with his stupendous use of really long and confusing words, as are the next-door twins, April, May and June, with their newspaper. I can not wait to read the sequel (which is waiting on the hold shelf for me to pick up at my local library!!!! and I think that Lissa Evans did a great job with her debut.
this is a great book, and if you ever notice it at the library, then check it out.